What is the size and scope of ARMS operation?
ARMS’ primary responsibilities include developing policy and guidelines for the maintenance and retention of Secretariat records including electronic media; improving recordkeeping in the United Nations; promoting and supporting research use of UN archives consistent with security and authorized access; and participating in strategic information planning organization-wide. ARMS’s mandate extends to all duty stations and to organs created by the Security Council, including peacekeeping missions, the Tribunals for the Former Yugsolavia and Rwanda, and the Compensation Commission. In the regular budget ARMS has 5 professional posts and 14 general service posts; extrabudgetary funding provides 1 professional to support ARMS’s work in peacekeeping missions.
